ENGLISH ABSTRACT: African Acacia species are often major contributors to the progressive increase in the woody
component of savannas, a phenomenon commonly referred to as bush encroachment. In Hluhluwe-
Umfolozi Park, ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Understanding the effects of climate change is one of the cardinal issues within the natural resource management circles. Increased droughts are part of these changes. Afrotemperate forests, as well as ...

Elim, a mission station of the Moravian Church, was established in 1824. The settlement is situated 48 kilometres from the southern extreme of the African continent. Vogelstruiskraal farm, is a sparsely populated area, a ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An understanding of the phylogeography and evolutionary processes involved in
speciation is essential for the conservation and management of any particular
species. To investigate the phylogeographic ...

The purpose of the study was to develop a specific and sensitive PCR protocol using env, gag and LTR primer pairs to detect HIV-1 subtypes present in the Western Cape, South Africa. Twenty-two virus strains, belonging to ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The discovery of lucrative diamond deposits along the west coast of Southern Africa
about 1200 kilometres from the Kimberley region during the period 1908 to 1927,
gave rise to a number of different ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Previously, conservation activities were mainly focussed upon the establishment of protected
areas that safeguarded and shielded the natural world from misuse, often resulting in the forced
removal ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was carried out to investigate whether environmental and/or genetic factors
had an effect on the incidence of epistaxis related to exercise-induced pulmonary
haemorrhage among racehorses in ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) maintains that its people-centred Participatory Forest Management (PFM) program contributes to rural poverty eradication through provision of employment, ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is estimated that some 12,5 to 15 million adults in South Africa have had little or no
education. Since the first democratic elections in April 1994 the political, economical
and social context in ...

HIV-1 is spreading at an exponential rate in southern Africa, with a current doubling time of approximately one year. An estimated 2 million of South Africa's 36 million population are already infected with HIV. Information ...

Popular claims link the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) almost automatically to economic development. This notion increased in prominence with the rise of neo-liberal thinking in the 1980s. It was also fuelled ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research on this topic was motivated by the concern about the state of disarray in the public hospitals infrastructure and that due to budget constrain across the globe, the governments can no longer ...

Doria Daniels was born and grew up in the Strand, in the Boland. She attended
Strand Moslem Primary School and matriculated from Gordon High School
in Somerset West. From 1977 to 1980 she studied full time at the University ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Diamictites are sedimentary deposits that originate from a number of different environments, the most common being associated with a glacial environment. Although this association is not, in all cases ...